Composing-stick gage



I (NoModeL) J. D. PARKER.

Composing Stick Gage.

No. 237,202. Patented Feb. 1,1881.

ATTORNEY N.PETERS, PHOTO-UTHOGRAPNER, WASHINGTON. D. O,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN D. PARKER, OF. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

COM POSING-STICK GAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,202, dated February1, 1881. Application filed June 29, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN D. PARKER, of Kansas City, in the county ofJackson and State of Missouri, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Gages for Composing- Sticks, of which the following is aspecification.

Gompositors sticks are generally setbyleads, which vary in length fromimperfect cutting and wear; consequently where several printers work onthe same job with sticks set by leads of different lengths the matter isliable to drop out of the form. To overcome this difficulty with aninstrument by which the compositors sticks can be readily and accuratelyset toany measure used in printing is the object of my improvements.

My invention consists in a gage or metallic plate divided intorectangular sections of different lengths in em measurement, wherebycompositors sticks can be set to any desired length within theircapacity.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of a plateinvolving my invention. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the form of construction shown the plate A is dividedinto rectangularsections a, b c d efg h ij k lmnop, of different lengths, measured bythe usual type-measurement, technically known as ems. The section a istwelve ems in length, the section b thirteen ems in length, and so on tosection h, which is nine,- teen ems in length.

The sections may be increased and varied in length to embrace allmeasurements used in printing.

By making two sets of graduations on 0pposite sides of the'middle, asshown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, I greatly increase the utility of thegage, while the two sets of graduations can never interfere with oneanother. This extension of the graduations could not be appliedelsewhere on the instrument without interfering with its operation,while as there applied it forms a compound gage that answers practicallyfor two separate and distinct ones.

To set a compositors stick with the instrument, loosen the screw andinsert into the stick that section of the instrument corresponding inlength'and number with the width of the column required; then set thestick accordingly, tighten up the screw, and remove the gage.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. In a gage for composing-sticks, the rectangulardivisions arranged to project correspondingly at each end beyond theouter adjacent one, as shown and described.

2. A gage for compositors sticks, made with graduated rectangulardivisions on each side of the middle of plate A, corresponding notchesbeing formed at each end of each side, as and 'for the purposespecified.

JOHN D. PARKER.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. WARDER, J. L. WHITTEMORE.

